Digital FETTU Exhibit in Canada

22 October 2009

Astronomers in Victoria, Canada have launched their fourth digital image exhibit, this time in the Mayfair Shopping Centre. The images from the exhibit From Earth to the Universe (FETTU), the Canadian curated image archive, Canadian artists (First Nations, children, and established artists) and the Victoria RASC Centre are displayed on seven large high-definition TVs provided by their SONY partner. Victoria's FETTU was conceived by a non astronomer, Natasha van Bentum, who deeply loves astronomical imagery, and implemented by the National Research Council and Victoria RASC Centre. The digital approach has been very successful and avoids many of the challenges of traditional printed exhibitions. Blu Ray FETTU videos prepared by Gary Sedun are now installed in the Calgary TELUS World of Science [see http://www.flickr.com/photos/iyacalgary ], and the bilingual (English-French) posters with captions of the FETTU images are now visible from the French IYA2009 website [http://ama09.obspm.fr/ama09/images/FETTU_Poster1.pdf].